Hundreds of healthcare workers and others criticized in Anaheim Hills on Tuesday for their anger over the expected cuts in Medicaid and their losses.
Local resident Cynthia Williams, one of the people protesting outside the office of Republican Congressman Young Kim, said she knew exactly where the so-called government efficiency department (or multi-grid) needed to trim fat.
“The cuts are cuts to these billionaires,” Williams said. “The cuts phase affect the real life of human beings that need care.”
About 200 workers, their supporters and Kim components have condemned the potential cuts of Medi-Cal, as Medicaid is known in California and familiar with President Trump and Tech Titan Elon Musk among the head of Doge. The government’s budget resolution proposed billions of dollars in tax and spending cuts. Although Trump said he does not support Medicaid cuts to provide health services to low-income people, the Congressional Budget Office said it would be impossible to achieve the savings he promised without cutting such programs.
Protesters avoided the commercial park next to Highway 91 and left the commercial park’s vehicles around noon Tuesday. Five workers spoke to residents for about 20 minutes before the group marched into the front of the Golden Office. There, about 30 protesters in medical gowns raised their signs with artificial bloody handprints and died.
Fight for our Health Alliance, the rally includes representatives from Healthcare Unions SEIU-UHW and SEIU-2015, as well as many other healthcare and senior advocacy organizations.
Kim Jong Il’s representative Callie Strock said the congresswoman appreciated the advocates’ work on health care.
“She is committed to protecting and strengthening our health care system, including providing vital Medicaid services to our most vulnerable people and spreading throughout the aisles to expand care for her own constituents,” Stroke said in an email.
Gold has been released statement February 26th About House of Representatives continues to resolveto avoid partial government closures, noting that it “provides a framework for fiscal spending and does not cut any specific plans.”
“As this process evolves, I will continue to make it clear that it would not be my vote without protecting the most vulnerable Medicaid services, providing tax breaks for small businesses, and addressing the caps for state and local tax (salt) deductions.”
Like others at the protests on Tuesday, the issue is personal by Josephine Rios.
The 55-year-old nursing assistant has worked for seven years at Kaiser Permanente Orange County Irvine Medical Center. She said she was protesting on behalf of her 7-year-old grandson Elijah, who had cerebral palsy.
Rios said her grandson relies on $5,000 worth of medication and treatments per month, including physical, verbal and occupational therapy. He also received injections that help prevent “uncontrollable seizures.”
She fears that cutting Medi-Cal would make his medication impossible and that his life is in tragic.
“Stripping it from him will leave him home and leave him helpless,” Rios said. “The drug that deprives him of is life-threatening.”
Rios said she felt Kim betrayed, and he voted for delegates in a tough election Win for the third time in November.
“I was her strongest supporter and I helped her elect her post,” Rios said. “I convinced my friends and family to vote for her.”
“If she votes to cut Medi-Cal, I will advocate equally powerful to get her out of the office,” Rios added.
As Reuters reported recentlyRepublican lawmakers have differences on this issue. Some say they won’t cut benefits, but will overhaul Medicaid. Others think it should be preserved when the country faces the possibility of a recession.
Rios protester Williams said she was a recipient of Medi-Cal’s family support service and was a full-time care worker with her sister and PTSD and daughter Kailee.
“This plan is the lifeline for my family,” she said. “We can’t afford the cuts.”
Williams and her family are Rep. King’s congressional district that relies on Medi-Cal’s 157,000 residents, accounting for 21% of the population. according to California Center for Budget and Policy.
Public advocacy groups believe that the cuts could affect 82,000 adults, accounting for 55% of the region’s population.
Ian Kamus, a spokesman for the OC Operations of the Labor Advocacy group, said Tuesday that he understands the need for waste and fraud to be pruned, but he disagrees with what he thinks is the way of the road and the Republican-backed Congress.
“It’s a good thing to make sure the government is efficient, but they’re just cutting everything and they don’t really understand how it affects people,” said Kamus, a resident of Aliso Viejo.
